40 Bible Verses about ignorance

For while on account of the length of time ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one should teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But all these things will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.

For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, "To an unknown God." What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.

And these things will they do, because they neither know the Father nor me.

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

John answered them, saying, I baptize in water. There standeth one among you whom ye know not,

Jesus saith to him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how is it that thou sayest, Show us the Father?

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

but even till this day, when Moses is read, there lieth a veil upon their heart;

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them in condemning him.

And he answering said, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female?

But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

Jesus answered and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

For this peoples heart hath become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that of old by the word of God there were heavens, and an earth formed out of the water and by the water,

but he that knew not and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few. And from every one to whom much hath been given, will much be required; and to whom much hath been entrusted, of him will the more be demanded.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a doer of outrage; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;

And now, brethren, I know that ye acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, Ye will drink the cup that I drink, and ye will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

Peter saith to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.

Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see. Your sin remaineth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten wealth, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the pitiable one, and poor, and blind, and naked,

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

The wind bloweth where it will; and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

The wind bloweth where it will; and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

For while on account of the length of time ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one should teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them! for they know not what they do. And they divided his garments, casting lots.

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;